Corruption Costs Government Sector Millions In Stolen Funds

A report submitted to the Speaker of the National Assembly included several official documents with cases and reports that show evidence of violations of public funds until April 2020, reports Al-Nahar daily. Included in the report are several monitoring, statistical and investigative methods to which the Government aims to utilize to recover stolen public money.

The committee in charge of following up on public funds since April 2020, provided the report which the Minister of Justice submitted to the speaker.

In the documents mentioned was that 38 government agencies gathered evidence of infringement of public funds, where they recorded 405 cases and information of 7 cases involving an estimate at half a billion dinars, while a large number of cases are of unknown value for various reasons. Also mentioned was the inability to complete their assessment and investigation of certain cases.

Among the noteworthy cases in the documents is Kuwait Petroleum Corporation suffering cyber fraud valued at US$ 150,000 while Kuwait Investment Authority registered a US$37,000 case regarding the purchase of alcohol for one of its establishments.

There were also other cases involving employees committing suspicious actions in the Tourism Projects Company by obtaining profit through illegal means, harming and neglecting the public fund, as well as infringement on public funds with regard to bonuses and salaries disbursed wrongly and unlawfully, and other sums lost in hospitality, in addition to a large amount of money stolen through forgery in official documents and fiscal stamps.

The majority of cases were uncovered in the Public Authority for the Affairs of Disabled (PADA) with 69, followed by the Ministry of Interior with 65 cases, then Ministry of Health with 31 cases, followed by Ministry of Education with 26 cases, and the Ministry Electricity with 25 cases most of which had to do with illegal supply of electricity.

 

Source: Timeskuwait

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